JERUSALEM: occupied Palestine. ARABNEWS A Palestinian man was in serious condition after a petrol bomb hit the taxi he was traveling in near a Jewish settlement in the Bethlehem region of the West Bank, hospital officials said yesterday. Six Palestinians from the same family, residents of Nahalin village, were on […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Sunday 19 August 2012 WASHINGTON: Iraq is helping its neighbor Iran skirt international sanctions by smuggling oil and letting Tehran secretly move large amounts of cash through bank auctions, The New York Times reported Sunday. Last month, US President Barack Obama singled out the Elaf Islamic […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 19 August 2012 A Saudi man hailing from the northern city of Arar has set a record by marrying 14 times during the last 37 years. Mutlaq Sulaiman, 53, said he wedded 14 women with the hope of getting a child. According to a report carried […]
Credit: Newyorker via Wasim Sroya In the south of Pakistan, where Hindus have lately been kidnapped for ransom and their daughters forcibly converted to Islam, Hindu families have started fleeing to India in trains. As they waved to their relatives from train windows, possibly for the last time, many Hindu […]
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The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Shamsul Islam Published: August 18, 2012 FAISALABAD: A heavy police contingent on Friday, on the demand of a banned organisation, removed […]
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Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I just googled and searched in Encyclopedia Britannica to find the definition of the terms, Jew, Christian, […]
Reuters | Aug 17, 2012 | 00:07 Updated: Aug 17, 2012 | 00:07 WASHINGTON — The United States and its allies are discussing a worst-case scenario that could require tens of thousands of ground troops to go into Syria to secure chemical and biological weapons sites following the fall of […]
Credit: NPR via Wasim Sroya. Courtesy of Geo TVAamir Liaquat, 41, is one of Pakistan’s most famous and controversial TV hosts. During the holy month of Ramadan, he broadcasts live for 11 hours a day while fasting and drawing record audiences. Back in 2008, remarks he made about a religious […]
Charity is not just recommended by Islam, it is required of every financially stable Muslim. Giving charity to those who deserve it is part of Muslim character and one of […]
ALEPPO – A fighter returns to a Free Syrian Army safe house after a shift on the Aleppo frontline, cranks up the volume of the television, lights a cigarette and looks at himself in a broken mirror. “Anyone got hair gel? I look a mess.” Meet Abu Zeid Al Tunsi, […]
MAKKAH/MADINAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 18 August 2012 More than 3 million worshippers offered Juma prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan at the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s […]
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Express Tribune: FAISALABAD: A heavy police contingent on Friday, on the demand of a banned organisation, removed Quranic verses and religious texts written on tombstones of Ahmadi graves to save the […]
Source: Dailymail One of the occasional complaints around solar panels is that they are ‘an eyesore’. Well this may be about to change, after researchers developed a new transparent solar cell which means windows in homes and other buildings can have the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people […]
Source: Kanglaoonline.com Manipur Muslim Online Forum (MMOF) appeals to all Northeasterners, in general, and Manipuris, in particular, to maintain peace and communal harmony. Some vested interests have been mongering rumour of attacks on migrant workers and students from Northeast in South India, especially Karnataka. We have strong faith in universal […]
United Nations: Former Algerian Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi on Friday was named as joint U.N.-Arab League special representative for Syria, replacing Kofi Annan as the international mediator tasked with finding […]
Friday 17 August 2012 ARABNEWS Makkah: The Royal Court issued the following statement: ‘According to the two Royal Orders No. 7311/MB dated 24/9/1429 H. and No. 6605/B dated 15/6/1430 H. […]
Source: The Atlantic Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, will come to a close this weekend…Throughout this ninth month on the Islamic calendar, devout Muslims must abstain from food, drink, and sex from dawn until sunset. The fast, one of the five pillars of Islam, is seen as a time […]